Future of Fair Trade Speakers List
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS- LIVE VIA WEBINAR
Safia Minney- CEO and Founder of People Tree
Safia Minney is an English business woman and author. She is the founder and CEO of People Tree, a Fair Trade and environmentally conscious fashion label. She is also a well noted spokesperson on fair trade and ethical fashion. She helped start the World Fair Trade Day which she still runs the secretariat from her Japanese office. Additionally, she co-wrote the book, Naked Fashion.
Safia Minney is an English business woman and author. She is the founder and CEO of People Tree, a Fair Trade and environmentally conscious fashion label. She is also a well noted spokesperson on fair trade and ethical fashion. She helped start the World Fair Trade Day which she still runs the secretariat from her Japanese office. Additionally, she co-wrote the book, Naked Fashion.
M.Ghayasuddin- General Manager Saidpur Enterprises
M.Ghayasuddin has been working with Saidpur Enterprises since 1976. Saidpur Enterprises comprises two groups: Action Bag Handicrafts and Eastern Screen Printers. Its Action Bag subsidiary employs women artisans who make a variety of jute products. Some have husbands who are underemployed; others are widowed. Action Bag provides literacy classes, and training on nutrition, women's legal rights, educational awareness and finance.
M.Ghayasuddin has been working with Saidpur Enterprises since 1976. Saidpur Enterprises comprises two groups: Action Bag Handicrafts and Eastern Screen Printers. Its Action Bag subsidiary employs women artisans who make a variety of jute products. Some have husbands who are underemployed; others are widowed. Action Bag provides literacy classes, and training on nutrition, women's legal rights, educational awareness and finance.
Molly Harriss Olson- CEO Fairtrade Australia New Zealand
Molly Harriss Olson is the newly appointed CEO of Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand (FANZ). She served for nearly 6 years on the Board of Fairtrade International (FTI) and as its Chair in the last two. In her time as Chair and on the FTI Board she played a pivotal role in successfully overhauling the Board’s ways of working, passing a new Constitution giving half ownership to the producers and workers we serve and broadly improving governance of this vital organisation, who’s mark is the most known and respected ethical certification mark in the world.
Molly Harriss Olson is the newly appointed CEO of Fairtrade Australia and New Zealand (FANZ). She served for nearly 6 years on the Board of Fairtrade International (FTI) and as its Chair in the last two. In her time as Chair and on the FTI Board she played a pivotal role in successfully overhauling the Board’s ways of working, passing a new Constitution giving half ownership to the producers and workers we serve and broadly improving governance of this vital organisation, who’s mark is the most known and respected ethical certification mark in the world.
PRE-RECORDED PRESENTATIONS
International Stream New Zealand Stream Australian Stream
International Stream New Zealand Stream Australian Stream
Nick Deardin
Director of the World Development Movement in the UK 
Adi Tafunai
Executive Director- Women in Business in Samoa 
Elaine Jones
Director of the WIEGO Global Trade Programme
Sunil Chitrakar
Mahaguthi Craft With Conscience
Karen Mapusa
Pacific Organic Ethical Trade Committee |
Marilyn Snider
Global Education Project
Bec Taylor & Helen Bush
Coordinators Fairly Educated
Chandler Giles
Adelaide City Council
Trish Howard
University of Western Australia
Joy Marshall
Owner, Joyful Fair |
